Cinematography: Poon Hang-Sang

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Poon Hang-Sang. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Center Stage

1991 · Movie · 150 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Stanley Kwan

Cast Maggie Cheung · Chin Han · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Carina Lau

Plot Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.

6.9

189 votes

6.9

189 votes

A Chinese Ghost Story

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung

Cast Leslie Cheung · Joey Wong · Wu Ma · David Lam

Plot Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends...

6.7

6K votes

6.7

6K votes

Fearless

2006 · Movie · 104 min. · China

Direction Ronny Yu

Cast Jet Li · Sun Li · Dong Yong · Yun Qu

Plot Superstar Jet Li stars in this action-packed film, his final martial arts picture, as real-life martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China...

6.6

8K votes

6.6

8K votes

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

2010 · Movie · 108 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wilson Yip

Cast Donnie Yen · Lynn Hung · Simon Yam · Sammo Hung

Plot In 1950, Yip Man (1893-1972) has left Foshun for Hong Kong. With his wife expecting their second child, Yip opens a martial arts school to teach Wing Chun. Things start...

6.5

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

Peking Opera Blues

1986 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Tsui Hark

Cast Brigitte Lin · Cherie Chung · Sally Yeh · Kenneth Tsang

Plot The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the...

6.4

85 votes

6.4

85 votes

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

1994 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Jeff Lau

Cast Stephen Chow · Ng Man-Tat · Law Kar-Ying · Karen Mok

Plot Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to...

6.4

46 votes

6.4

46 votes

Pavilion of Women

2000 · Movie · 116 min. · China

Direction Yim Ho

Cast Luo Yan · Willem Dafoe · Shek Sau · John Cho

Plot With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all:...

6.1

296 votes

6.1

296 votes

Kung Fu Hustle

2004 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Stephen Chow

Cast Stephen Chow · Feng Xiaogang · Yuen Wah · Dong Zhihua

Plot Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious "Axe Gang." Other characters include an...

5.9

15K votes

5.9

15K votes

Once a Thief

1991 · Movie · 108 min. · Hong Kong

Direction John Woo

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Leslie Cheung · David Wu · Cherie Chung

Plot A romantic and action packed story of three best friends, a group of high end art thieves, who come into trouble when a love-triangle forms between them.

5.7

534 votes

5.7

534 votes

Cj7

2008 · Movie · 86 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Stephen Chow

Cast Stephen Chow · Josie Xu · Steven Fung · Lam Tze-Chung

Plot A struggling father (Chow) who can't afford to buy his son Dicky a popular new toy unknowingly gifts his child with a garbage-pile discovery: a green orb that, in Dicky's...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Jackie Chan's Who Am I?

1998 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Benny Chan · Jackie Chan

Cast Jackie Chan · Michelle Ferre · Mirai Yamamoto · Ron Smerczak

Plot A secret agent loses his memory after falling from a crashing helicopter. He is then chased by a number of other agency operatives, but he has no idea why.

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

5.6

599 votes

The Heroic Trio (Dung fong saam hap)

1993 · Movie · 88 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To

Cast Michelle Yeoh · Anita Mui · Maggie Cheung · Damian Lau

Plot The all-female Heroic Trio are Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher), a mercenary, and Ching (Invisible Woman). Initially, they're on opposing sides - the invisible Ching is kidnapping newborn male...

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5.5

206 votes

5.5

206 votes

Legacy of Rage

1986 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

5.4

92 votes

5.4

92 votes

Executioners (Heroic Trio 2)

1993 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To · Ching Siu-Tung

Cast Michelle Yeoh · Anita Mui · Maggie Cheung · Damian Lau

Plot Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio' the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both...

5.2

66 votes

5.2

66 votes

The 51st State

2001 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

5.2

3K votes

5.2

3K votes

The Iceman Cometh

1989 · Movie · 114 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Clarence Fok

Cast Yuen Biao · Yuen Wah · Maggie Cheung · Eva Lai

Plot A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he's tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong.

5.2

62 votes

5.2

62 votes

Blood: The Last Vampire

2009 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Chris Nahon

Cast Jun Ji-hyun · Allison Miller · Masiela Lusha · JJ Feild

Plot A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one...

4.5

2K votes

4.5

2K votes

Enter the Phoenix

2004 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong

4.4

53 votes

4.4

53 votes

The Legend of Zu

2001 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Tsui Hark

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Ekin Cheng · Cecilia Cheung · Sammo Hung

Plot Between the heaven and the Earth exist the Zu's mountain range, where live the immortals of Omei, the highest mountain of Zu, but the kingdom is in danger by Amnesia,...

3.1

1K votes

3.1

1K votes